In 1995, Michael Eavis offered four Showering brothers a space at Glastonbury Festival to sell their pear cider.
Thirty years later, we're still making cider in Somerset, still turning up in festival fields and still happiest when we're doing something a little different. Quite a lot has happened in between.
Born At Glastonbury
Brothers didn't begin in a boardroom or during a branding workshop. It began in a field. Four brothers, a pear cider and a spot at Glastonbury Festival in 1995.
People drank it, told their mates and came back for more. And somewhere between the music, mud and everything else that makes Glastonbury Glastonbury, Brothers found its place. Those festival roots have stayed with us ever since.
Centuries In The Making
Brothers might have started in 1995, but the Showering family's cider-making history goes back much further. Our family's documented cider-making roots in Somerset stretch back to 1658, through generations who learned their way around apples, orchards and making a good drink.
So doing things differently doesn't mean forgetting how to make cider properly. Quite the opposite.
Flavours That Don't Follow the Crowd
We've never been particularly interested in making cider purely for cider purists. Over the years that's led us towards fruit, experimentation and flavours that weren't necessarily the obvious thing to do at the time.
Some disappeared. Some became favourites. Some disappeared and then generated enough messages demanding their return that we had little choice but to bring them back. Hello again, Toffee Apple.
A New Look for 30 Years
For our 30th year, the cans changed too. The designs went back to where Brothers began: festival fields, real people, colour, energy and the slightly imperfect moments that tend to become the ones you remember.
A new look, but very much the same Brothers underneath.
30 Years of Real Good Times
Thirty years is a lot of festivals, a lot of cider and a lot of people who've made Brothers part of their weekends along the way. Some will remember their first Brothers at Glastonbury. Some found us years later. Some disappeared for a while and came back asking what happened to their favourite flavour.
All of it is part of the story.
And we're still adding to it.
Here's to whatever happens next.
